Parviz Tanavoli : poet

Poets, along with Prophets, Lovers, Wall, and Heech, are among the main series of Tanavoli's sculptures, in which the artist has fully grasped the relationship between the aesthetics of poetry and the arts, and has the genius to offer visual equivalents for literary concepts. He is, therefore, as much a sculptor as a poet when, for instance, he uses a bird as the head of the poet or places a lock on the body of the prophet.